On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 07:55:02PM +0000, Dave Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 11:07:07AM +0000, Steve Hay wrote: > > Note that ext/re/re_comp.c is copied from regcomp.c > > Does anyone know why this is done? It basically recompiles the core regex > funtions under new names, and allows them to be called instead of the > standard ones.
For use re "debug", I've always assumed it needed to be compiled specially.